PDevlin75
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Good morning!
I brewed a batch whose BG was estimated in BeerSmith to be 1.048. I poured a sample into my hydrometer test tube, and it said that the BG was 1.030 and the temp was 102 degrees. Adjusting for calibration, it would have been 1.036
I then put the hydrometer in my boil kettle and checked again... This time, it read as 1.040 at 122 to give me an adjusted 1.051
I'm inclined to go with the boil kettle reading, as that makes me feel better that I was closer to my numbers. But why the difference, do you think? Volume?
Thanks,
-Pete
I brewed a batch whose BG was estimated in BeerSmith to be 1.048. I poured a sample into my hydrometer test tube, and it said that the BG was 1.030 and the temp was 102 degrees. Adjusting for calibration, it would have been 1.036
I then put the hydrometer in my boil kettle and checked again... This time, it read as 1.040 at 122 to give me an adjusted 1.051
I'm inclined to go with the boil kettle reading, as that makes me feel better that I was closer to my numbers. But why the difference, do you think? Volume?
Thanks,
-Pete